2. Trocaire drought programme
A 3 year livelihoods/DRR prog
Approx. 3 million Euros
It has an inbuilt DRR approach
CC mainstreamed
Drought is the main hazard
3. Why adopt DRR
To address disasters through development
programmes
To combine short, medium and long-term
strategies to deal with disasters
The development context is changing
4. A world of increasing disaster risk?
Indian Ocean Tsunami
250 000 lives lost Hurricane Katrina
US$200 billion
South Asian Earthquake Famine in Africa
3 million homeless Millions at-risk
5. The growing burden of
disaster losses in poor
countries
Disaster Losses, Total and as Share of GDP, 1985-99
600 20
500
15
Los ses US$ Billion
% GNP (nominal)
400
300 10
Total
200
Ec onomic
5
Losses
100
Losses as
0 0
Share of
GD P
Richest Poorest
Countries Countries
7. The most important shift in
international emphasis is:
From To
Managing Managing disaster
disaster events risks
Primary focus on Primary focus on
preparedness and reducing disaster risks
relief developmentally
8. Trocaire DRR in the
field: the tool kit
• Comprises older ‘used tools’
from disaster management
• Includes ‘newer tools’ from
the disaster risk reduction
framework
9. Drought disasters in Kenya
How Trócaire is responding to drought
through DRR
12 major drought events in the last 50yrs
ASALS affected by drought and CC is a
catalyst
10. Bridging scope of DRR in drought-prone areas
Drought prep. & Drought Climate change
response mitigation adaptation
strategies
Short-term Med-long-term Long-term
Classic Developmental Sustainable
„humanitarian risk reduction Development
action‟
11. Drought preparedness, & response
Aim at strengthening early warning
Improve readiness measures to respond in the
event of a drought.
Ensure human capacity for drought response
12. Drought mitigation
A mitigation approach assumes:
„drought can happen during any season … but
we don‟t know how severe, what extent… or
how long…‟
So… we „introduce drought-proofing’
measures into agriculture, water, financing,
public services… into all drought sensitive
services/programmes as a developmental
priority…
13. Adaptation to climate change
long-term programming to reduce dependency
on rain-fed agriculture in drought-exposed areas.
Creative strategies for improving effectiveness of
existing rainwater harvesting mechanisms.
Drought risk reduction can help reduce short-
term impacts – but should also aim at building
capacity to adapt to expected climate change
impacts
14. Identification of hazards, risks,
vulnerabilities and capacity
Using the formulae;
Risk=HazardxVulnerability
Capacity
15. & practice of DRR
Taking action to reduce Let‟s looks at 3 Hazards
risks through reducing Malaria, Drought, Floods:
Q. What do we know about the
hazards and vulnerability hazard e.g. cause,
and increasing capacity seasonality, location, impact
etc.?
Q. Who is most vulnerable?
Risk=HazardxVulnerability Why/what makes people
Capacity most vulnerable?
Q. What can de done to reduce
risk?
Q. What can we do as
Trocaire?
16. Planning methodology used
Participatory Risk Analysis (PRA) and
mapping methodology
Combines PRA and use of georeferencing
using GPS technology
18. In times of drought,
We protect distress sale of household assets
We utilize food-for-work/Assets to enhance
drought preparedness through enhancing
community productive and protective
capacities
19. Construction soil & water conservation
structures during drought-
preparedness
23. Cereal seedling transplanting-CCA
Sorghum seed (seedbed stage) during the dry season
Sorghum seedlings transplanted after 35-45 days (Main farm)
at the onset of rains
25. After drought we facilitate recovery
thus drought mitigation
So we rebuild livelihood assets lost through
drought eg limited restocking
We return households to normalcy or higher
livelihood levels
We supply “seed” livestock
28. Building resilience of livelihood assets
Improve quantity: numbers
Improve quality of produce
Improve marketing
etc
Aim is to ensure the people and their assets
can defend themselves and withstand the
next drought
